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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gregory see in the darkness?
(a) His eyes have adapted.
(b) With a glowstick
(c) With a candle.
(d) With a flashlight.

2. What does Roscuro offer to do?
(a) Listen to any other confessionals.
(b) Take a message to his daughter.
(c) Take a message to his son.
(d) Take the cloth to ease the man's burden.

3. What is Despereaux's last name?
(a) Filling.
(b) Milling.
(c) Billing.
(d) Tilling.

4. What does Botticelli do when the door opens to admit a prisoner?
(a) He runs to get Roscuro.
(b) He runs to get Gregory.
(c) He runs into the darkness.
(d) He looks away from the light at the door.

5. What makes the Princess cry?
(a) Her father condemns Despereaux to death.
(b) Her father fears Despereaux.
(c) Her father banishes Despereaux from the castle.
(d) Her father yells at Despereaux.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day does Roscuro leave the dungeon to go into the light of the castle?

2. What is Despereaux's destiny?

3. What do stories do for Gregory?

4. What is the new prisoner being jailed for?

5. What does Despereaux decide he must do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What fascination does Roscuro develop even though he is told it is not proper?

2. What does the threadmaster ask Despereaux as he is doing his job?

3. What does Roscuro discover when he works up the courage to go upstairs into the light?

4. When Despereaux faints, what does he wake up to see?

5. What are the basic rules of being a mouse that Despereaux breaks when he hears the music?

6. What is the outcome of Chiaroscuro's trip into the light?

7. What are the ways in which Despereaux is considered to be a disappointment or different, and by whom?

8. How does Despereaux's behavior get him into trouble?

9. What does Despereaux suddenly find unbearable, and what does he ask the guards?

10. What does Despereaux do in the all encompassing darkness to make himself feel brave?

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